Safety medicine-bottle.



Patented Nov. 14, 1911 diaafforweg/ COLUMBIA FLANOGRAPH co, WASHINGTON, 0 cv NETTIE ILLOWAY, ;OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY MEDICINE-BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

Application filed May 26, 1911. Serial No. 629,590.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NETTIE ILLOWAY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Manhattan borough, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Medicine-Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved safety medicine bottle, the object being to provide a bottle from which the contents cannot be poured therefrom by children or by adults through mistake.

Strictly speaking, my invention comprises a bottle and dropper combined,the bottle being so constructed as to adapt the contents thereof to be extracted therefrom drop by drop, the bottle being filled through the bottom, a suitable removable cover being provided, which prevents the contents of the bottle from oozing therefrom through the small openings which are provided in the top of the bottle, should the bottle be laid upon its side.

My improved bottle will be found particularly useful where there are children, as it would be impossible for a child to place the neck of the bottle in its mouth and extract the contents therefrom.

My improved bottle is particularly well adapted for dropping medicines.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, the novel features of which I will finally claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, wherein:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved bottle; and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates the body portion of my improved bottle, the said body portion being provided with an opening 2 which is formed in the inwardly projecting bottom 2 of the body portion 1. A cork or plug 3 is inserted in the opening 2. The opening 2 is provided for the purpose of filling the bottle, which is filled, as is apparent, through the bottom, the said bottom being projected inwardly in order that the cork 3 will not come in contact with the object upon which the bottle stands. The cork 3 will project, however, slightly beyond the annular ring in which it is fitted, in order that it may be pulled out by the fingers.

As can be seen in Fig. 1, the body of the bottle is provided with a neck 4;, having a closed imperforate upper end or top 5. The top or end 5 of the bottle is larger in diameter than the neck 4, and preferably formed as shown in order that a channel 6, will be provided, which will act as a chamber or duct for the contents of the bottle.

In order that the contents of the bottle may be extracted, drop by drop, I provide an opening 7 in the wall 7 of the chamber 6, the said opening being preferably considerably smaller than an opening 8 which is diametrically opposite the opening 7 and also in the wall 7. The opening 8 acts as an air vent or passage for air, whereby the contents of the bottle may be caused to drop through the opening 7, due to the equalization of the external and internal air pressure.

To prevent the contents of the bottle from oozing through the openings 8 and 7, should the bottle lie on its side, I provide a closure 9, made preferably of some elastic material such as rubber, the said closure surrounding and being secured to the neck 4 of the bottle by, in this instance, the wire 10. WVhen the bottle is to be used, the closure 9 may be pushed or peeled from the end 5 of the bottle, thereby uncovering the openings 7 and 8. As the closure 9 is preferably made from rubber, it will stretch sufiiciently to slide over the wall 7 of the chamber 6, when pushed downwardly or toward the body portion 1 of the bottle. By means of'the wire 10, the closure 9 is permanently secured to the bottle and cannot be lost. The flexible nature of the closure 9 renders it easily manipulated for the purposes of covering and uncovering the openings 7 and 8.

In practice I find that the chamber 6 has the additional function of permitting a free dropping of the liquid through opening 7 by reason of the fact that when the bottle is tilted and the full. contents should flow into the neck thereof, there is left an air space in the chamber 6 adjacent the air inlet, which permits a certain amount of air to remain therein, whereby the bottle is prevented from choking. It will also be noted that should a child remove the cork from the bottom of the bottle its contents will escape before the child has time to put it to its mouth. Should the child, however, put the neck into its mouth, the first drop of poison in the bottle will ordinarily deter further extraction.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A bottle, having an opening in the lower end thereof, adapted to receive a cork, said bottle being provided With a neck of a lesser diameterthan the body portion thereof, the upper extremity of the neck being closed and provided With an internal annular duct or channel and an air Vent and an outlet 10 in the side of the Wall of said channel or duct.

2. A bottle having an opening in the loWer end thereof adapted to receive a cork, said bottle being provided With a neck, of a lesser diameter than the body portion thereof, the upper end of said neck being closed and formed to provide an internal annular duct or chamber, said neck being provided with openings in communication with said duct or chamber, and a closure for said openings. Signed at New York city, N. Y. this th day of May, 1911.

NETTIE ILLOWAY.

4 Witnesses:

EDWARD A. JARVIS, V

ESTELLE O. HAMBURGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

